It’ll be a lot more interesting to see those sort of charging facilities spring up off of rural interstate off-ramps, very far from the nearest nuke power plant. That’s the real test - putting them where they’ll be needed, not cherry-picked locations that are ideal as proof-of-concept. Musk may be smart and ambitious, but large scale EV adoption is realistically a fifty-year project - IF we can afford it.
Put chargers along the highways at 50 mile increments this is exactly what Tesla is doing. 75% of all Americans live in a census urban county they will never need to have charger in BFE. The cities are being blanketed with CCS and NACS fast DC and L2 are going in at urban condos as well. For the two trips per year or less that urbanites take past 400 miles you rent a car and be done with it. No need carter to the edge users you cater to the 75% that’s growing in percentage every year. Hybrids make sense for the 6% or less who drive more than 30 miles per day in a regular basis.
This is Toyota’s plan make one drivetrain that can be hybrid,fuel cells or fully electric using the same motors and inverters. Tesla will leave the consumer market once they get their automated taxi approved there is too much profit in automated ubers/lyft vs selling a $35,000 car. Automated uber’s run 12 hours per day are $100,000 in revenue or more per year No way Tesla stays in the consumer market.
If there IS a USA in fifty years. And if the left has failed in their efforts to limit travel (which equals FREEDOM) to the elite.